RE: What is at the end of the namespace?

> Whenever you use an HTTP URI in a Web browser,

I never said I was in a web browser ;-)

> Why is it so odd that some people only want to use it as an
> identifier, without going off and dereferencing it? 

Because other folks expect that an HTTP URI *is* dereferencable,
hence all the (IMO needless) bruhaha over "what's at the end
of a namespace".

Patrick